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Illegitimacy
ILLEGIT'IMACY, noun [See Legitimate.]
1. The state of being born out of wedlock; the state of bastardy.
2. The state of being not genuine, or of legitimate origin.
Illegitimate
ILLEGIT'IMATE, adjective [See Legitimate.]
1. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; spurious; as an illegitimate son or daughter.
2. Unlawful; contrary to law.
3. Not genuine; not of genuine origin; as an illegitimate inference.
4. Not authorized by good usage; as an illegitimate word.
ILLEGIT'IMATE, verb transitive To render illegitimate; to prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize.
Illegitimately
ILLEGIT'IMATELY, adverb Not in wedlock; without authority.
Illelgitimation
ILLELGITIMA'TION, noun The state of one not born in wedlock.
1. Want of genuineness.
Illeviable
ILLEV'IABLE, adjective That cannot be levied or collected.
ILL'-FACED, adjective Having an ugly face.
Illiberal
ILLIB'ERAL, adjective [See Liberal.] Not liberal; not free or generous.
1. Not noble; not ingenuous; not catholic; of a contracted mind. Cold in charity; in religion, illiberal
2. Not candid; uncharitable in judging.
3. Not generous; not munificent; sparing of gifts.
4. Not becoming a well bred man.
5. Not pure; not well authorized or elegant; as illiberal words in Latin.
Illiberality
ILLIBERAL'ITY, noun Narrowness of mind; contractedness; meanness; want of catholic opinions.
1. Parsimony; want of munificence.
Illiberally
ILLIB'ERALLY, adverb Ungenerously; uncandidly; uncharitably; disingenuously.
1. Parsimoniously.
Illicit
ILLIC'IT, adjective [Latin illicitus; in and licitus, from liceo, to permit.]
Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as an illicit trade; illicit intercourse or connection.
Illicitly
ILLIC'ITLY, adverb Unlawfully.
Illicitness
ILLIC'ITNESS, noun Unlawfulness.
Illicitous
ILLIC'ITOUS, adjective Unlawful.
Illighten
ILLI'GHTEN, verb transitive [See Light, Lighten.] To enlighten. [Not in use.]
Illimitable
ILLIM'ITABLE, adjective [in, not, and limit, or Latin limes.]
That cannot be limited or bounded; as the illimitable void.
Illimitably
ILLIM'ITABLY, adverb Without possibility of being bounded.
1. Without limits.
Illimited
ILLIM'ITED, adjective [Latin limes, a limit.] Unbounded; not limited; interminable.
Illimitedness
ILLIM'ITEDNESS, noun Boundlessness; the state of being without limits or restriction.
The absoluteness and illimitedness of his commission was much spoken of.
Illinition
ILLINI'TION, noun [Latin illinitus, illinio, to anoint; in and lino, to besmear.] A thin crust of some extraneous substance formed on minerals.
It is sometimes disguised by a thin crust or illinition of black manganese.
Illiteracy
ILLIT'ERACY, noun [from illiterate.] The state of being untaught or unlearned; want of a knowledge of letters; ignorance.
Illiterate
ILLIT'ERATE, adjective [Latin illiteratus; in and literatus; from litera, a letter.] Unlettered; ignorant of letters or books; untaught; unlearned; uninstructed in science; as an illiterate man, nation or tribe.
Illiterateness
ILLIT'ERATENESS, noun Want of learning; ignorance of letters, books or science.
Illiterature
ILLIT'ERATURE, noun Want of learning. [Little used.]
Illness
ILL'NESS, noun [from ill.] Badness; unfavorableness; as the illness of the weather. [Not used.]
1. Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness. He has recovered from his illness
2. Wickedness; iniquity; wrong moral conduct.
Illogical
ILLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Logical.] Ignorant or negligent of the rules of logic or correct reasoning; as an illogical disputant.
1. Contrary to the rules of logic or sound reasoning; as an illogical inference.
Illogically
ILLOG'ICALLY, adverb In a manner contrary to the rules of correct reasoning.
Illogicalness
ILLOG'ICALNESS, noun Contrariety to sound reasoning.
Illstarred
ILL'STARRED, adjective [ill and star.] Fated to be unfortunate.
ILL'-TRAINED, adjective Not well trained or disciplined.
Illude
ILLU'DE, verb transitive [Latin illudo; in and ludo, to play. See Ludicrous.]
To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite hope and disappoint it.
Illuded
ILLU'DED, participle passive Deceived; mocked.
Illuding
ILLU'DING, participle present tense Playing on by artifice; deceiving.
Illume
ILLU'ME
ILLU'MINANT, noun That which illuminates or affords light.
Illuminant
ILLU'MINANT, n. That which illuminates or affords light.
Illuminate
ILLU'MINATE, verb transitive [See Illume.] To enlighten; to throw light on; to supply with light. [This word is used in poetry or prose.]
1. To adorn with festal lamps or bonfires.
2. To enlighten intellectually with knowledge or grace. .
3. To adorn with pictures, portraits and other paintings; as, to illuminate manuscripts or books, according to ancient practice.
4. To illustrate; to throw light on, as on obscure subjects.
ILLU'MINATE, adjective Enlightened.
ILLU'MINATE, noun One of a sect of heretics pretending to possess extraordinary light and knowledge.
Illuminated
ILLU'MINATED, participle passive Enlightened; rendered light or luminous; illustrated; adorned with pictures, as books.
Illuminati
ILLUMINA'TI, noun A church term anciently applied to persons who had received baptism; in which ceremony they received a lighted taper, as a symbol of the faith and grace they had received by that sacrament.
1. The name of a sect of heretics, who sprung up in Spain about the year 1575, and who afterward appeared in France. Their principal doctrine was, that by means of a sublime manner of prayer, they had attained to so perfect a state as to have no need of ordinances, sacraments and good works.
2. The name given to certain associations of men in modern Europe, who combined to overthrow the existing religious institutions, and substitute reason, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection.
Illuminating
ILLU'MINATING, participle present tense Enlightening; rendering luminous or bright; illustrating; adorning with pictures.
ILLU'MINATING, noun The act, practice or art of adorning manuscripts and books by paintings.
Illumination
ILLUMINA'TION, noun The act of illuminating or rendering luminous; the act of supplying with light.
1. The act of rendering a house or a town light, by placing lights at the windows, or in elevated situations, as a manifestation of joy; or the state of being thus rendered light.
2. That which gives light.
The sun--is an illumination created.
3. Brightness; splendor.
4. Infusion of intellectual light; an enlightening of the understanding by knowledge, or the mind by spiritual light.
5. The act, art or practice of adorning manuscripts and books with pictures.
6. Inspiration; the special communication of knowledge to the mind by the Supreme Being.
Hymns and psalms--are framed by meditation beforehand, or by prophetical illumination are inspired.
Illuminative
ILLU'MINATIVE, adjective Having the power of giving light.
Illuminator
ILLU'MINATOR, noun He or that which illuminates or gives light.
1. One whose occupation is to decorate manuscripts and books with pictures, portraits and drawings of any kind. This practice began among the Romans, and was continued during the middle ages. The manuscripts containing portraits, pictures and emblematic figures, form a valuable part of the riches preserved in the principal libraries in Europe.
From this word, by contraction, is formed limner.
Illumine
ILLU'MINE, verb transitive [Latin illumino; in and lumino, to enlighten, from lumen, light. See Luminous.]
1. To illuminate; to enlighten; to throw or spread light on; to make light or bright.
[These words are used chiefly in poetry.]
2. To enlighten, as the mind; to cause to understand.
3. To brighten; to adorn.
The mountain's brow,
Illum'd with fluid gold--
Illuminee
ILLUMINEE'
ILLU'MINISM, noun The principles of the Illuminati.
Illuminize
ILLU'MINIZE, verb transitive To initiate into the doctrines or principles of the Illuminati.
Illusion
ILLU'SION, noun s as z. [Latin illusio, from illudo, to illude.] Deceptive appearance; false show, by which a person is or may be deceived, or his expectations disappointed; mockery.
Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise!
Illusive
ILLU'SIVE, adjective Deceiving by false show; deceitful; false.
While the fond soul,
Wrapt in gay visions of unreal bliss,
Still paints th' illusive form.
Illusively
ILLU'SIVELY, adverb By means of a false show.
Illusiveness
ILLU'SIVENESS, noun Deception; false show.
Illusory
ILLU'SORY, adjective [Latin illusus, illudo.] Deceiving or tending to deceive by false appearances; fallacious. His offers were illusory
Illustrate
ILLUS'TRATE, verb transitive [Latin illustro; in and lustro, to illuminate. See Luster.]
1. To make clear, bright or luminous.
2. To brighten with honor; to make distinguished.
Matter to me of glory! whom their hate
Illustrates--
3. To brighten; to make glorious, or to display the glory of; as, to illustrate the perfections of God.
4. To explain or elucidate; to make clear, intelligible or obvious, what is dark or obscure; as, to illustrate a passage of Scripture by comments, or of a profane author by a gloss.
Illustrated
ILLUS'TRATED, participle passive Made bright or glorious.
1. Explained; elucidated; made clear to the understanding.
Illustrating
ILLUS'TRATING, participle present tense Making bright or glorious; rendering distinguished; elucidating.
Illustration
ILLUSTRA'TION, noun The act of rendering bright or glorious.
1. Explanation; elucidation; a rendering clear what is obscure or abstruse.
Illustrative
ILLUS'TRATIVE, adjective Having the quality of elucidating and making clear what is obscure; as an argument or simile illustrative of the subject.
1. Having the quality of rendering glorious, or of displaying glory.
Illustratively
ILLUS'TRATIVELY, adverb By way of illustration or elucidation.
Illustrator
ILLUS'TRATOR, noun One who illustrates or makes clear.
Illustrious
ILLUS'TRIOUS, adjective [Latin illustris.]
1. Conspicuous; distinguished by the reputation of greatness; renowned; eminent; as an illustrious general or magistrate; an illustrious prince.
2. Conspicuous; renowned; conferring honor; as illustrious actions.
3. Glorious; as an illustrious display of the divine perfections.
4. A title of honor.
Illustriously
ILLUS'TRIOUSLY, adverb Conspicuously; nobly; eminently; with dignity or distinction.
1. Gloriously; in a way to manifest glory. The redemption of man displays illustriously the justice as well as the benevolence of God.
Illustriousness
ILLUS'TRIOUSNESS, noun Eminence of character; greatness; grandeur; glory.
Illuxurious
ILLUXU'RIOUS, adjective Not luxurious.
Im
I'M, contracted from I am.
IM, in composition, is usually the representative of the Latin in; n being changed to m, for the sake of easy utterance, before a labial, as in imbibe, immense, impartial. We use the same prefix in compounds not of Latin origin, as in imbody, imbitter. For im the French write em, which we also use in words borrowed from their language.
Image
IM'AGE, noun [Latin imago.]
1. A representation or similitude of any person or thing, formed of a material substance; as an image wrought out of stone, wood or wax.
Whose is this image and superscription? .
2. A statue.
3. An idol; the representation of any person or thing, that is an object of worship. The second commandment forbids the worship of images.
4. The likeness of any thing on canvas; a picture; a resemblance painted.
5. Any copy, representation or likeness.
The child is the image of its mother.
6. Semblance; show; appearance.
The face of things a frightful image bears.
7. An idea; a representation of any thing to the mind; a conception; a picture drawn by fancy.
Can we conceive
Image of aught delightful, soft or great?
8. In rhetoric, a lively description of any thing in discourse, which presents a kind of picture to the mind.
9. In optics, the figure of any object, made by rays of light proceeding from the several points of it. Thus a mirror reflects the image of a person standing before it, as does water in a vessel or stream, when undisturbed.
IM'AGE, verb transitive To imagine; to copy by the imagination; to form a likeness in the mind by the fancy or recollection.
And image charms he must behold no more.
Image-Worship
IM'AGE-WORSHIP, noun The worship of images; idolatry.
Imagery
IM'AGERY, noun im'ajry. Sensible representations, pictures, statues.
Rich carvings, portraitures and imagery
1. Show; appearance.
What can thy imagery and sorrow mean?
2. Forms of the fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms.
The imagery of a melancholic fancy.
3. Representations in writing or speaking; lively descriptions which impress the images of things on the mind; figures in discourse.
I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery
4. Form; make.
Imaginable
IMAG'INABLE, adjective That may be imagined or conceived. This point is proved with all imaginable clearness.
Imaginant
IMAG'INANT, adjective Imagining; conceiving. [Not used.]
Imaginary
IMAG'INARY, adjective Existing only in imagination or fancy; visionary; fancied; not real.
Imaginary ills and fancied tortures.
Imagination
IMAGINA'TION, noun [Latin imaginatio.] The power or faculty of the mind by which it conceives and forms ideas of things communicated to it by the organs of sense.
Imagination I understand to be the representation of an individual thought.
Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination [conception.]
Imagination, in its proper sense, signifies a lively conception of objects of sight. It is distinguished from conception, as a part from a whole.
The business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have also a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones so as to form new wholes of our own creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power. I apprehend this to be the proper sense of the word, if imagination be the power which gives birth to the productions of the poet and the painter.
We would define imagination to be the will working on the materials of memory; not satisfied with following the order prescribed by nature, or suggested by accident, it selects the parts of different conceptions, or objects of memory, to form a whole more pleasing, more terrible, or more awful, than has ever been presented in the ordinary course of nature.
The two latter definitions give the true sense of the word, as now understood.
1. Conception; image in the mind; idea.
Sometimes despair darkens all her imaginations.
His imaginations were often as just as they were bold and strong.
2. Contrivance; scheme formed in the mind; device.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, and all their imaginations against me. .
3. Conceit; an unsolid or fanciful opinion.
We are apt to think that space, in itself, is actually boundless; to which imagination the idea of space of itself leads us.
4. First motion or purpose of the mind. .
Imaginative
IMAG'INATIVE, adjective That forms imaginations.
1. Full of imaginations; fantastic.
Imagine
IMAG'INE, verb transitive [Latin imaginor, from imago, image.]
1. To form a notion or idea in the mind; to fancy. We can imagine the figure of a horse's head united to a human body.
In this sense, fancy is the more proper word.
2. To form ideas or representations in the mind, by modifying and combining our conceptions.
3. To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise.
How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? .
IMAG'INE, verb intransitive To conceive; to have a notion or idea. I cannot imagine how this should have happened.
Imagined
IMAG'INED, participle passive Formed in the mind; fancied; contrived.
Imaginer
IMAG'INER, noun One who forms ideas; one who contrives.
Imagining
IMAG'INING, participle present tense Forming ideas in the mind; devising.
Imam
IM'AM
IM'AN, noun A minister or priest among the Mohammedans.
Imbalm, Imbargo, Imbark, Imbase. See Embalm, Embargo, Embark, Embase.
Iman
IM'AN, n. A minister or priest among the Mohammedans.
Imbalm, Imbargo, Imbark, Imbase. See Embalm, Embargo, Embark, Embase.
Imban
IMBAN', verb transitive [in and ban.] To excommunicate, in a civil sense; to cut off from the rights of man, or exclude from the common privileges of humanity.
Imband
IMBAND', verb transitive [in and band.] To form into a band or bands.
Beneath full sails imbanded nations rise.
Imbanded
IMBAND'ED, participle passive Formed into a band or bands.
Imbank
IMBANK, verb transitive [in and bank.] To inclose with a bank; to defend by banks, mounds or dikes.
Imbanked
IMBANK'ED, participle passive Inclosed or defended with a bank.
Imbanking
IMBANK'ING, participle present tense Inclosing or surrounding with a bank.
Imbankment
IMBANK'MENT, noun The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.
1. Inclosure by a bank; the banks or mounds of earth that are raised to defend a place, especially against floods.
Imbarn
IMB'ARN, verb transitive To deposit in a barn. [Not used.]
Imbastardize
IMB'ASTARDIZE, verb transitive To bastardize, which see.
Imbead
IMBE'AD, verb transitive [in and bead.] To fasten with a bead.
The strong bright bayonet imbeaded fast.
Imbeaded
IMBE'ADED, participle passive Fastened with a bead.
Imbecile
IM'BECILE, adjective im'becil. [Latin imbecillis.] Weak; feeble; destitute of strength, either of body or of mind; impotent.
Imbecility
IMBECIL'ITY, noun [Latin imbecillitas.]
1. Want of strength; weakness; feebleness of body or of mind. We speak of the imbecility of the body or of the intellect, when either does not possess the usual strength and vigor that belongs to men, and which is necessary to a due performance of its functions. This may be natural, or induced by violence or disease.
2. Impotence of males; inability to procreate children.
Imbed
IMBED', verb transitive [in and bed.] To sink or lay in a bed; to place in a mass of earth, sand or other substance, so as to be partly inclosed.
Imbedded
IMBED'DED, participle passive Laid or inclosed, as in a bed or mass of surrounding matter.
Imbedding
IMBED'DING, participle present tense Laying, as in a bed.
Imbellic
IMBEL'LIC, adjective [Latin in and bellicus.] Not warlike or martial. [Little used.]
Imbenching
IMBENCH'ING, noun [in and bench.] A raised work like a bench.
Imbibe
IMBI'BE, verb transitive [Latin imbibo; in and bibo, to drink.]
1. To drink in; to absorb; as, a dry or porous body imbibes a fluid; a sponge imbibes moisture.
2. To receive or admit into the mind and retain; as, to imbibe principles; to imbibe errors. Imbibing in the mind always implies retention, at least for a time.
3. To imbue, as used by Newton; but he has not been followed.
Imbibed
IMBI'BED, participle passive Drank in, as a fluid; absorbed; received into the mind and retained.
Imbiber
IMBI'BER, noun He or that which imbibes.
Imbibing
IMBI'BING, participle present tense Drinking in; absorbing; receiving and retaining.
Imbibition
IMBIBI'TION, noun The act of imbibing.
Imbitter
IMBIT'TER, verb transitive [in and bitter.] To make bitter.
1. To make unhappy or grievous; to render distressing. The sins of youth often imbitter old age. Grief imbitters our enjoyments.
2. To exasperate; to make more severe, poignant or painful. The sorrows of true penitence are imbittered by a sense of our ingratitude to our Almighty Benefactor.
3. To exasperate; to render more violent or malignant; as, to imbitter enmity, anger, rage, passion, etc.
Imbittered
IMBIT'TERED, participle passive Made unhappy or painful; exasperated.
Imbittering
IMBIT'TERING, participle present tense Rendering unhappy or distressing; exasperating.
Imbodied
IMBOD'IED, participle passive [See Imbody.] Formed into a body.
Imbody
IMBOD'Y, verb transitive [in and body.] To form into a body; to invest with matter; to make corporeal; as, to imbody the soul or spirit.
An opening cloud reveals
A heavenly form, imbodied and array'd
With robes of light.
1. To form into a body, collection or system; as, to imbody the laws of a state in a code.
2. To bring into a band, company, regiment, brigade, army, or other regular assemblage; to collect; as, to embody the forces of a nation.
Then Clausus came, who led a numerous band
Of troops imbodied.
IMBOD'Y, verb intransitive To unite in a body, mass or collection; to coalesce.
Imbodying
IMBOD'YING, participle present tense Forming into a body; investing with a corporeal body.
1. Collecting and uniting in a body.
Imboil
IMBOIL', verb intransitive To effervesce.
Imbolden
IMBOLDEN, verb transitive imboldn. [in and bold.] To encourage; to give confidence to.
Nothing imboldens sin so much as mercy.
IMBOLDEN, participle passive Encouraged; having received confidence.
Imboldening
IMBOLDENING, participle present tense Encouraging; giving confidence.
Imborder
IMBORD'ER, verb transitive [in and border.] To furnish or inclose with a border; to adorn with a border.
1. To terminate; to bound.
Imbordered
IMBORD'ERED, participle passive Furnished, inclosed or adorned with a border; bounded.
Imbordering
IMBORD'ERING, participle present tense Furnishing, inclosing or adorning with a border; bounding.
Imbosk
IMBOSK', verb transitive To conceal, as in bushes; to hide.
Imbosom
IMBO'SOM, verb transitive s as z. [in and bosom.] To hold in the bosom; to cover fondly with the folds of one's garment.
1. To hold in nearness or intimacy.
--The Father infinite,
By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son.
2. To admit to the heart or affection; to caress.
But glad desire, his late imbosom'd guest--
3. To inclose in the midst; to surround.
Villages imbosomed soft in trees--
4. To inclose in the midst; to cover; as pearls imbosomed in the deep.
Imbosomed
IMBO'SOMED, participle passive Held in the bosom or to the breast; caressed; surrounded in the midst; inclosed; covered.
Imbosoming
IMBO'SOMING, participle present tense Holding in the bosom; caressing; holding to the breast; inclosing or covering in the midst.
Imbound
IMBOUND', verb transitive [in and bound.] To inclose in limits; to shut in. [Little used.]
Imbow
IMBOW, verb transitive [in and bow.] To arch; to vault; as an imbowed roof.
1. To make of a circular form; as imbowed windows.
Imbowed
IMBOWED, participle passive Arched; vaulted; made of a circular form.
Imbower
IMBOW'ER, verb transitive [in and bower.] To cover with a bower; to shelter with trees.
Imbowered
IMBOW'ERED, participle passive Covered with a bower; sheltered with trees.
Imbowering
IMBOW'ERING, participle present tense Covering with a bower or with trees.
Imbowing
IMBOWING, participle present tense Arching; vaulting; making of a circular form.
Imbowment
IMBOWMENT, noun An arch; a vault.
Imbox
IMBOX', verb transitive To inclose in a box.
Imbrangle
IMBRAN'GLE, verb transitive To entangle.
Imbreed
IMBREE'D, verb transitive To generate within.
Imbricate
IM'BRICATE
IM'BRICATED, adjective [Latin imbricatus, imbrico, from imbrex, a tile.]
1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
2. In botany, lying over each other, like tiles on roof; parallel, with a strait surface, and lying one over the other; as leaves in the bud.
Imbricated
IM'BRICATED, a. [L. imbricatus, imbrico, from imbrex, a tile.] 1. Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.2. In botany, lying over each other, like tiles on roof; parallel, with a strait surface, and lying one over the other; as leaves in the bud.
Imbrication
IMBRICA'TION, noun A concave indenture, like that of tiles; tiling.
Imbrown
IMBROWN', verb transitive [in and brown.] To make brown; to darken; to obscure.
The umpierc'd shade
IMBROWN'd the noon-tide bowers.
1. To darken the color of; to make dirty.
The foot grows black that was with dirt imbrown'd.
2. To tan; to darken the complexion.
Imbrowned
IMBROWN'ED, participle passive Made brown; darkened; tanned.
Imbrowning
IMBROWN'ING, participle present tense Rendering brown; darkening; tanning.
Imbrue
IMBRUE, verb transitive imbru'. [Gr. to moisten.]
1. To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench in a fluid, chiefly in blood.
Whose arrows in my blood their wings imbrue
Lucius pities the offenders,
That would imbrue their hands in Cato's blood.
2. To pour out liquor.
Imbrued
IMBRU'ED, participle passive Wet; moistened; drenched.
Imbruing
IMBRU'ING, participle present tense Wetting; moistening; drenching.
Imbrute
IMBRU'TE, verb transitive [in and brute.] To degrade to the state of a brute; to reduce to brutality.
--And mix with bestial slime
This essence to incarnate and imbrute
IMBRU'TE, verb intransitive To sink to the state of a brute.
Imbruted
IMBRU'TED, participle passive Degraded to brutism.
Imbruting
IMBRU'TING, participle present tense Reducing to brutishness.
Imbue
IMBUE, verb intransitive imbu'. [Latin imbuo; in and the root of Eng. buck, to buck cloth, that is, to dip, drench or steep in water.]
1. To tinge deeply; to dye; as, to imbue cloth.
2. To tincture deeply; to cause to imbibe; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.
Imbued
IMBU'ED, participle passive tinged; dyed; tinctured.
Imbuing
IMBU'ING, participle present tense Tinging; dyeing; tincturing deeply.
Imitability
IMITABIL'ITY, noun [See Imitable, Imitate.] The quality of being imitable.
Imitable
IM'ITABLE, adjective [Latin imitabilis. See Imitate.]
1. That may be imitated or copied. Let us follow our Savior in all his imitable conduct and traits of character. There are some works of the ancients that are hardly imitable The dignified style of Johnson is scarcely imitable
2. Worthy of imitation.
Imitate
IMI'TATE, verb transitive [Latin imitor; allied perhaps to Gr. similar, equal.]
1. To follow in manners; to copy in form, color or quality. We imitate another in dress or manners; we imitate a statue, a painting, a sound, an action, when we make or do that which resembles it. We should seek the best models to imitate and in morals and piety, it is our duty to imitate the example of our Savior. But as we cannot always make an exact similitude of the original, hence,
2. To attempt or endeavor to copy or resemble; as, to imitate the colors of the rainbow, or any of the beauties of nature. Cicero appears to have imitated the Greek orators.
3. To counterfeit.
This hand appear'd a shining sword to wield,
And that sustain'd an imitated shield.
4. To pursue the course of a composition, so as to use like images and examples.
Imitated
IM'ITATED, participle passive Followed; copied.
Imitating
IM'ITATING, participle present tense Following in manner; copying.
Imitation
IMITA'TION, noun [Latin imitatio; imitor, to imitate.]
1. The act of following in manner, or of copying in form; the act of making the similitude of any thing, or of attempting a resemblance. By the imitation of bad men or of evil examples, we are apt to contract vicious habits. In the imitation of natural forms and colors, we are often unsuccessful. imitation in music, says Rousseau, is a reiteration of the same air, or of one which is similar, in several parts where it is repeated by one after the other, either in unison, or at the distance of a fourth, a fifth, a third, or any interval whatever. imitation in oratory, is an endeavor to resemble a speaker or writer in the qualities which we propose to ourselves as patterns.
2. That which is made or produced as a copy; likeness; resemblance. We say, a thing is a true imitation of nature.
3. A method of translating, in which modern examples and illustrations are used for ancient, or domestic for foreign, or in which the translator not only varies the words and sense, but forsakes them as he sees occasion.
Imitative
IM'ITATIVE, adjective Inclined to follow in manner; as, man is an imitative being.
1. Aiming at resemblance; that is used in the business of forming resemblances. Painting is an initiative art.
2. Formed after a model, pattern or original.
This temple, less in form, with equal grace,
Was imitative of the first in Thrace.
Imitative music, is that which is intended to resemble some natural operation, the passions, and the like.
Imitator
IM'ITATOR, noun One that follows in manners or deportment.
1. One that copies, or attempts to make the resemblance of any thing.
Imitatorship
IMITA'TORSHIP, noun The office or state of an imitator.
Immaculate
IMMAC'ULATE, noun [Latin immaculatus; in and macula, a spot.]
1. Spotless; pure; unstained; undefiled; without blemish; as immaculate reputation; immaculate thoughts. Our Savior has set us an example of an immaculate life and conversation.
2. Pure; limpid; not tinged with impure matter; as an immaculate fountain.
Immaculate conception, the conception of our Savior by the virgin Mary.
Immaculately
IMMAC'ULATELY, adverb With spotless purity.
Immaculateness
IMMAC'ULATENESS, noun Spotless purity.
Immailed
IMMA'ILED, adjective Wearing mail or armor.
Immalleable
IMMAL'LEABLE, adjective [in and malleable.] Not malleable; that cannot be extended by hammering.
Immanacle
IMMAN'ACLE, verb transitive [in and manacle.] To put manacles on; to fetter or confine; to restrain from free action.
Immanacled
IMMAN'ACLED, participle passive Fettered; confined.
Immanacling
IMMAN'ACLING, participle present tense Fettering; confining.
Immane
IMMA'NE, adjective [Latin immanis.] Vast; huge; very great. [Little used.]
Immanely
IMMA'NELY, adverb Monstrously; cruelly.
Immanency
IM'MANENCY, noun Internal dwelling.
Immanent
IM'MANENT, adjective [Latin in and manens, maneo, to abide.] Inherent; intrinsic; internal.
Immanity
IMMAN'ITY, noun [Latin immanitas.] Barbarity; savageness.
Immarcessible
IMMARCES'SIBLE, adjective [Latin in and marcesco, to fade.] Unfading.
Immartial
IMM'ARTIAL, adjective [in and martial.] Not martial; not warlike.
Immask
IMM'ASK, verb transitive [in and mask.] To cover, as with a mask; to disguise.
Immasked
IMM'ASKED, participle passive Covered; masked.
Immasking
IMM'ASKING, participle present tense Covering; disguising.
Immatchable
IMMATCH'ABLE, adjective That cannot be matched; peerless.
Immaterial
IMMATE'RIAL, adjective
1. Incorporeal; not material; not consisting of matter; as immaterial spirits. The mind or soul is immaterial
2. Unimportant; without weight; not material; of no essential consequence.
Immaterialism
IMMATE'RIALISM, noun The doctrine of the existence or state of immaterial substances or spiritual beings.
Immaterialist
IMMATE'RIALIST, noun One who professes immateriality.
Immateriality
IMMATERIAL'ITY, noun The quality of being immaterial, or not consisting of matter; destitution of matter; as the immateriality of the soul.
Immaterialized
IMMATE'RIALIZED, adjective Rendered or made immaterial.
Immaterially
IMMATE'RIALLY, adverb In a manner not depending on matter.
1. In a manner unimportant.
Immaterialness
IMMATE'RIALNESS, noun The state of being immaterial; immateriality.
Immateriate
IMMATE'RIATE, adjective Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; immaterial. [Little used.]
Immature
IMMATU'RE, adjective [Latin immaturus; in and maturus.]
1. Not mature or ripe; unripe; that has not arrived to a perfect state; applied to fruit.
2. Not perfect; not brought to a complete state; as immature plans or counsels.
3. Hasty; too early; that comes before the natural time.
[In this sense, premature is generally used.]
Immaturely
IMMATU'RELY, adverb Too soon; before ripeness or completion; before the natural time.
Immatureness
IMMATU'RENESS
IMMATU'RITY, noun Unripeness; incompleteness; the state of a thing which has not arrived to perfection.
Immaturity
IMMATU'RITY, n. Unripeness; incompleteness; the state of a thing which has not arrived to perfection.
Immeability
IMMEABIL'ITY, noun [Latin in and meo, to pass.] Want of power to pass.
The proper sense is, the quality of not being permeable, or not affording a passage through the pores. [Little used.]
Immeasurable
IMMEAS'URABLE, adjective immezh'urable. [in and measure.]
That cannot be measured; immense; indefinitely extensive; as an immeasurable distance or space; an immeasurable abyss.
Immeasurably
IMMEAS'URABLY, adverb To an extent not to be measured; immensely; beyond all measure.
Immeasured
IMMEAS'URED, adjective Exceeding common measure.
Immechanical
IMMECHAN'ICAL, adjective [in and mechanical.] Not consonant to the laws of mechanics.
Immediacy
IMME'DIACY, noun [from immediate.] Power of acting without dependence.
Immediate
IMME'DIATE, adjective [Latin in and medius, middle.]
1. Proximate; acting without a medium, or without the intervention of another cause or means; producing its effect by its own direct agency. An immediate cause is that which is exerted directly in producing its effect, in opposition to a mediate cause, or one more remote.
2. Not acting by second causes; as the immediate will of God.
3. Instant; present; without the intervention of time. We must have an immediate supply of bread.
Immediate are my needs--
Death--inflicted--by an immediate stroke.
Immediately
IMME'DIATELY, adverb Without the intervention of any other cause or event; opposed to mediately.
The transfer, whether accepted immediately by himself, or mediately by his agent, vests in him the property.
1. Instantly; at the present time; without delay, or the intervention of time.
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will, be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. .
Immediateness
IMME'DIATENESS, noun Presence with regard to time.
1. Exemption from second or intervening causes.
Immedicable
IMMED'ICABLE, adjective [Latin immedicabilis; in and medicabilis, from medico, to heal.] Not to be healed; incurable.
Immelodious
IMMELO'DIOUS, adjective Not melodious.
Immemorable
IMMEM'ORABLE, adjective [Latin immemorabilis; in and memorabilis. See Memory.]
Not to be remembered; not worth remembering.
Immemorial
IMMEMO'RIAL, adjective [Latin in and memor, memoria.]
Beyond memory; an epithet given to time or duration, etc., whose beginning is not remembered, or cannot be traced and ascertained; as when it is said a man has possessed an estate in fee from time immemorial or time out of mind. Such possession constitutes prescription, or prescriptive right. So we speak of immemorial use, custom or practice. In England, a thing is said to be immemorial when it commenced before the reign of Edward II.
Immemorially
IMMEMO'RIALLY, adverb Beyond memory.
Immense
IMMENSE, adjective immens'. [Latin immensus; in and mensus, metior, to measure.]
1. Unlimited; unbounded; infinite.
O goodness infinite! goodness immense!
2. Vast in extent; very great; as an immense distance.
3. Huge in bulk; very large; as the immense body of Jupiter.
Immensely
IMMENSELY, adverb immens'ly. Infinitely; without limits or measure.
1. Vastly; very greatly.
Immensity
IMMENS'ITY, noun Unlimited extension; an extent not to be measured; infinity.
By the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity
1. Vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.
Immensurability
IMMENSURABIL'ITY, noun [from immensurable.] The quality of not being capable of measure; impossibility to be measured.
Immensurable
IMMEN'SURABLE, adjective [Latin in and mensurabilis, from mensura, measure; mensus, metior.] Not to be measured; immeasurable.
The law of nature--a term of immensurable extent.
Immensurate
IMMEN'SURATE, adjective Unmeasured.
Immerge
IMMERGE, verb transitive immerj'. [Latin immergo; in and mergo, to plunge.]
1. To plunge into or under a fluid. [See Immerse, which is generally used.]
2. verb intransitive To enter the light of the sun, as a star, or the shadow of the earth, as the moon.
Immerit
IMMER'IT, noun Want of worth. [Not used.]
Immerited
IMMER'ITED, adjective Unmerited. [Not used.]
Immeritous
IMMER'ITOUS, adjective Undeserving. [Not used.]
Immerse
IMMERSE, verb transitive immers'. [Latin immersus, from immergo; in and mergo, to plunge.]
1. To put under water or other fluid; to plunge; to dip.
2. To sink or cover deep; to cover wholly; as, to be immersed in a wood.
3. To plunge; to overwhelm; to involve; to engage deeply; as, to immerse in business or cares.
It is impossible for a man to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyment of this.
Immersed
IMMERS'ED, participle passive Put into a fluid; plunged; deeply engaged; enveloped in the light of the sun, as a star, or in the shadow of the earth, as the moon.
Immersing
IMMERS'ING, participle present tense Plunging into a fluid; dipping; overwhelming; deeply engaging.
Immersion
IMMER'SION, noun The act of putting into a fluid below the surface; the act of plunging into a fluid till covered.
1. The state of sinking into a fluid.
2. The state of being overwhelmed or deeply engaged; as an immersion in the affairs of life.
3. In astronomy, the act of entering into the light of the sun, as a star, so as to be enveloped and invisible to the eye; or the state of being so enveloped. Also, the entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth, at the commencement of an eclipse; or the state of being enveloped in the shadow. It is opposed to emersion.
The time when a star or planet is so near the sun as to be invisible; also, the moment when the moon begins to be darkened, and to enter the shadow of the earth.
Immesh
IMMESH', verb transitive [in and mesh.] To entangle in the meshes of a net, or in a web. Observe whether the fly is completely immeshed. The spider used his efforts to immesh the scorpion.
Immeshed
IMMESH'ED, participle passive Entangled in meshes or webs.
Immeshing
IMMESH'ING, participle present tense Entangling in meshes or webs.
Immethodical
IMMETHOD'ICAL, adjective [in and methodical. See Method.]
Having no method; without systematic arrangement; without order or regularity; confused.
Immethodically
IMMETHOD'ICALLY, adverb Without order or regularity; irregularly.
Immethodicalness
IMMETHOD'ICALNESS, noun Want of method; confusion.
Immigrant
IM'MIGRANT, noun A person that removes into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
Immigrate
IM'MIGRATE, verb intransitive [Latin immigro; in and migro, to migrate.]
To remove into a country for the purpose of permanent residence. [See Emigrate.]
Immigration
IMMIGRA'TION, noun The passing or removing into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.
Imminence
IM'MINENCE, noun [Latin imminentia, immineo, to hang over.]
Properly, a hanging over, but used by Shakespeare for impending evil or danger. [Little used.]
Imminent
IM'MINENT, adjective [Latin imminens, from immineo, to hang over; in and minor, to threaten. See Menace.]
Literally, shooting over; hence, hanging over; impending; threatening; near; appearing as if about to fall on; used of evils; as imminent danger; imminent judgments, evils or death.
Immingle
IMMIN'GLE, verb transitive [in and mingle.] To mingle; to mix; to unite with numbers.
Immingled
IMMIN'GLED, participle passive Mixed; mingled.
Immingling
IMMIN'GLING, participle present tense Mixing; mingling.
Imminution
IMMINU'TION, noun [Latin imminutio, imminuo; in and minuo, to lessen.] A lessening; diminution; decrease.
Immiscibility
IMMISCIBIL'ITY, noun [Latin immisceo; in and misceo, to mix.] Incapacity of being mixed.
Immiscible
IMMIS'CIBLE, adjective [in and miscible.] Not capable of being mixed.
Immission
IMMIS'SION, noun [Latin immissio, immitto; in and mitto, to send.]
The act of sending or thrusting in; injection; contrary to emission.
Immit
IMMIT', verb transitive [Latin immitto; in and mitto, to send.] To send in; to inject.
Immitigable
IMMIT'IGABLE, adjective [in and mitigate.] That cannot be mitigated or appeased.
Immix
IMMIX', verb transitive [in and mix.] To mix; to mingle.
Immixable
IMMIX'ABLE, adjective Not capable of being mixed.
Immixed
IMMIX'ED
IMMIXT', adjective Unmixed.
Immixt
IMMIXT', a. Unmixed.
Immobility
IMMOBIL'ITY, noun [Latin immobilitas, from immobilis; in and mobilis, from moveo, to move.] Unmovableness; fixedness in place or state; resistance to motion.
Immoderacy
IMMOD'ERACY, noun Excess.
Immoderate
IMMOD'ERATE, adjective [Latin immoderatus; in and moderatus. See Moderate.]
Exceeding just or usual bounds; not confined to suitable limits; excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as immoderate demands; immoderate passions, cares or grief.
Immoderately
IMMOD'ERATELY, adverb Excessively; to an undue degree; unreasonably; as, to weep immoderately
Immoderateness
IMMOD'ERATENESS, noun Excess; extravagance.
Immoderation
IMMOD'ERATION, noun Excess; want of moderation.
Immodest
IMMOD'EST, adjective [Latin immodestus; in and modestus, modest. See the latter.]
1. Literally, not limited to due bounds. Hence, in a general sense, immoderate; exorbitant, unreasonable; arrogant.
2. Appropriately, wanting in the reserve or restraint which decency requires; wanting in decency and delicacy. It is immodest in decency and delicacy. It is immodest to treat superiors with the familiarity that is customary among equals.
3. Wanting in chastity; unchaste; lewd; as an immodest female.
4. Impure; indelicate; as an immodest thought.
5. Obscene; as an immodest word.
Immodestly
IMMOD'ESTLY, adverb Without due reserve; indecently; unchastely; obscenely.
Immodesty
IMMOD'ESTY, noun [Latin immodestia.] Want of modesty; indecency; unchastity.
1. Want of delicacy or decent reserve.
Immolate
IM'MOLATE, verb transitive [Latin immolo, to sacrifice; in and mola, meal sprinkled with salt, which was thrown on the head of the victim.]
1. To sacrifice; to kill, as a victim offered in sacrifice.
2. To offer in sacrifice.
Now immolate the tongues and mix the wine.
Immolated
IM'MOLATED, participle passive Sacrificed; offered in sacrifice.
From the same altar on which the small states shall be immolated will rise the smoke of sacrificed liberty, and despotism must be the dreadful successor.
Immolating
IM'MOLATING, participle present tense Sacrificing; offering, as a victim.
Immolation
IMMOLA'TION, noun The act of sacrificing.
1. A sacrifice offered.
Immolator
IM'MOLATOR, noun One who offers in sacrifice.
Immoment
IMMO'MENT, adjective Trifling.
Immomentous
IMMOMENT'OUS, adjective Unimportant.
Immoral
IMMOR'AL, adjective [in and moral.] Inconsistent with moral rectitude; contrary to the moral or divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious. Every action is immoral which contravenes any divine precept, or which is contrary to the duties which men owe to each other.
1. Wicked or unjust in practice; vicious; dishonest; as an immoral man. Every man who violates a divine law or a social duty, is immoral but we particularly apply the term to a person who habitually violates the laws.
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